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* AwesomeButImpractical: Sorcery in Cladun x2 is insanely, insanely powerful magic: but, on the minus side, [[SuperpowerMeltdown it has a high chance of backfiring]] and it almost always requires you to cast the spell up to four times before it actually does anything - and those 'dummy' shots have a chance of backfiring too. In addition, high-level Sorcery spells have an insanely high SP cost on top of this.
** In general it's much easier to use weapons instead of spells to attack, since they tend to be much less SP-intensive, and an insanely powerful nuke spell isn't going to do much if you can't cast it.
** In general it's much easier to use weapons instead of spells to attack, since they tend to be much less SP-intensive, and an insanely powerful nuke spell isn't going to do much if you can't cast it.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: Sorcery in Cladun x2 is insanely, insanely powerful magic: but, on ''x2'' and Hexes in ''Sengoku'' are among the minus side, strongest kind of Magic in the game, but [[SuperpowerMeltdown it has a high chance of backfiring]] and it almost always requires you have to cast the spell dump up to four times "dummy" charges before it the spell will actually start working; not only does anything - and those 'dummy' shots this chew through your SP at a ridiculous rate, the pre-cast charges can ''also'' backfire. There are Artifacts that can reduce the number of dummy casts you have a chance of backfiring too. In addition, high-level Sorcery spells have an insanely high SP cost on top of this.
** In general it's much easierto use weapons instead of spells to attack, since they tend to be much less SP-intensive, burn and an insanely powerful nuke spell isn't going the rate of failure, but they're rather difficult to do much if you can't cast it.find.
** In general it's much easier
* BoringButPractical: In general, it's much easier to use weapons instead of spells to attack, since they tend to be much less SP-intensive, and an insanely powerful nuke spell isn't going to do much if you can't cast it.
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* BrutalBonusLevel: Time Attack and the later areas of the Neogeons and Trigeons in general in Cladun x2.
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* BrutalBonusLevel: The Time Attack and the later areas dungeon. The higher up floors of the Neogeons and Trigeons Ran-geons can also approach this. And don't even get started on Doom Gates in general in Cladun x2.''x2''...
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* {{Cap}}: 999 on HP, ATK, and DEF. There are Titles that will let you break the cap, but these are typically exceedingly rare and can only be found on the higher-level Ran-geon floors.
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* LethalJokeCharacter: If cornered, a [[MetalSlime Hiyokki]] will fight, and it hits ''hard''.
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* LimitBreak: The Awakening Skill. When used in conjunction with a Magic Circle that has Awaken spaces on it, using the Awakening skill will activate the Awaken space on the Magic Circle and trigger powerful buffs.
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* CompetitiveBalance: In order to keep the PlayerVersusPlayer in ''Sengoku'' in check, players are unable to use their own characters for the mode, and are restricted exclusively to Lords you pick up in EX Stages. You also cannot edit their Magic Circles. However, Levels are carried over.
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* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Sorcery in Cladun x2. Justified in that it's AwesomeButImpractical and can be ''very'' harmful to the wielder themselves.
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** Sorcery in Cladun x2. Justified in that it's AwesomeButImpractical and can be ''very'' harmful to the wielderthemselves.themselves.
** Hexes in ''Sengoku'' are the game's replacement for Sorcery, and functions in exactly the same way.
** Sorcery in Cladun x2. Justified in that it's AwesomeButImpractical and can be ''very'' harmful to the wielder
** Hexes in ''Sengoku'' are the game's replacement for Sorcery, and functions in exactly the same way.
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* DiscOneNuke: Hilariously, ''Sengoku'' throws you a free '''Widen''' no later than three hours into the game if you go out of the way to farm Fame in the first two Chapters and EX Stages.
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* DifficultButAwesome: The MML editor in ''x2'' and ''Sengoku''. It can be really frustrating to work with if you have absolutely no idea how MML works, but if you can figure it out, your only limits with the system are your own creativity.
* DiscOneNuke: Hilariously, ''Sengoku'' throws you a free '''Widen''' no later than three hours into the game if you go out of the way to farm 30 Fame in the first two Chapters and EX Stages.
* DiscOneNuke: Hilariously, ''Sengoku'' throws you a free '''Widen''' no later than three hours into the game if you go out of the way to farm 30 Fame in the first two Chapters and EX Stages.
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* LuckBasedMission: Getting the Lucky Seven Magic Circle in ''x2''. You have to finish a Rangeon with the level on the final floor being exactly level 777, and you have no control over exactly what level any particular floor will be at, meaning that you may have to go through hundreds of runs before you can obtain it. And it isn't even that great anyways, once you get powerful enough to take on a level 777 dungeon.
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* LuckBasedMission: LuckBasedMission:
** Getting the Lucky Seven Magic Circle in ''x2''. You have to finish a Rangeon with the level on the final floor being exactly level 777, and you have no control over exactly what level any particular floor will be at, meaning that you may have to go through hundreds of runs before you can obtain it. And it isn't even that great anyways, once you get powerful enough to take on a level 777dungeon.dungeon.
** Killing an Immortal. Without damage reflecting, it's only possible to do so with a specific Title, which is not only quite rare, but it gives you only a '''1%''' chance to kill on any given hit.
** Getting the Lucky Seven Magic Circle in ''x2''. You have to finish a Rangeon with the level on the final floor being exactly level 777, and you have no control over exactly what level any particular floor will be at, meaning that you may have to go through hundreds of runs before you can obtain it. And it isn't even that great anyways, once you get powerful enough to take on a level 777
** Killing an Immortal. Without damage reflecting, it's only possible to do so with a specific Title, which is not only quite rare, but it gives you only a '''1%''' chance to kill on any given hit.
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A third entry, titled ''[=ClaDun=] Sengoku'', is set to be released on May 27, 2016 in Japan. The game is set during the Warring States period in Arcanus Cella. There are more new jobs and weapon types plus competitive and cooperative multiplayer via ad-hoc play.
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A third entry, titled ''[=ClaDun=] Sengoku'', Returns: This is set to be Sengoku!'', was released for the UsefulNotes/PSVita and Steam on May 27, 2016 in Japan. The game is set Japan and June 6th, 2017 worldwide. Set during the Warring States period in Sengoku era of Japanese history, ''Sengoku'' will have players traversing the danger-filled dungeons of feudal-era Arcanus Cella. There are more Cella to save lost souls who have yet to reincarnate into the real world. In addition to all of the features introduced in ''x2'', ''Sengoku'' adds new jobs classes, the Shuriken and Sickle weapon types plus competitive types, a new Ran-geon type, and cooperative multiplayer via ad-hoc play.
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* RidiculouslyCuteCritter:
** The original and ''x2'' have the Hiyokkis, which are large, adorable bird creatures that are both friend and foe. The enemy versions are also {{Metal Slime}}s that drop valuable items.
** ''Sengoku'' has Owls, which replace the Hiyokkis. That being said, the Hiyokkis aren't completely gone.
** The original and ''x2'' have the Hiyokkis, which are large, adorable bird creatures that are both friend and foe. The enemy versions are also {{Metal Slime}}s that drop valuable items.
** ''Sengoku'' has Owls, which replace the Hiyokkis. That being said, the Hiyokkis aren't completely gone.
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* KatanasAreJustBetter: ''Sengoku'' has a Katana weapon class, which is just a reskin of the Sword class from the last two games.
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* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: Many of the later areas in the randomly generated dungeons could qualify. Imminent Area? Immortal Area? Curse Area? Fierce Area? Sorcery Area? ''Worst Area?'' '''Massacre Area?'''
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* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace:
** Many of the later areas in the randomly generated dungeons could qualify. Imminent Area? Immortal Area? Curse Area? Fierce Area? Sorcery Area? ''Worst Area?'' '''MassacreArea?'''Area?'''
** If you thought Ran-geons, Neo-geons, and Tri-geons were bad, ''Sengoku'' introduces a fourth variant called the '''Death-geon'''.
** Many of the later areas in the randomly generated dungeons could qualify. Imminent Area? Immortal Area? Curse Area? Fierce Area? Sorcery Area? ''Worst Area?'' '''Massacre
** If you thought Ran-geons, Neo-geons, and Tri-geons were bad, ''Sengoku'' introduces a fourth variant called the '''Death-geon'''.
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* MultipleEndings: Each story character has a "bad ending" that can be viewed by going to the door in the tree. Also, once you've beaten the final boss once, you can see the "good ending" for each character (other than "secret character" [[spoiler:Asagi]]) by going back and beating it again using that character as your main. (You get the secret character's "good ending" by beating a BonusBoss.) Some of the endings can even be accessed as early as the first few minutes after leaving the first dungeon.
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* MultipleEndings: MultipleEndings:
** Each story character has a "bad ending" that can be viewed by going to the door in the tree. Also, once you've beaten the final boss once, you can see the "good ending" for each character (other than "secret character" [[spoiler:Asagi]]) by going back and beating it again using that character as your main. (You get the secret character's "good ending" by beating a BonusBoss.) Some of the endings can even be accessed as early as the first few minutes after leaving the firstdungeon.dungeon.
** ''x2'' has a hidden bad ending that can be seen if you [[spoiler:return to Descent of Might Symbol after beating Death Glutton and go through the newly-accessible Exit Gate at the far end of the map.]]
** Each story character has a "bad ending" that can be viewed by going to the door in the tree. Also, once you've beaten the final boss once, you can see the "good ending" for each character (other than "secret character" [[spoiler:Asagi]]) by going back and beating it again using that character as your main. (You get the secret character's "good ending" by beating a BonusBoss.) Some of the endings can even be accessed as early as the first few minutes after leaving the first
** ''x2'' has a hidden bad ending that can be seen if you [[spoiler:return to Descent of Might Symbol after beating Death Glutton and go through the newly-accessible Exit Gate at the far end of the map.]]
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* AnachronismStew: Arcanus Cella is a backwater dimension filled with various mythical creatures that seems suspended in medieval stasis... except there are working showers, plumbing devices, interdimensional telephones, and slang that never existed till the 1990s. One can take this one step further by adding guns and cyborgs into the game, though that relies on the player more than anything else.
* AnimeThemeSong: Quite unfittingly, each game in the series has a vocal theme song that plays on the title screen as long as the game is set to Modern music; ''x2'', for example, featured Kanae Ito's "Call of the Dungeon" on the main menu.
* AnachronismStew: Arcanus Cella is a backwater dimension filled with various mythical creatures that seems suspended in medieval stasis... except there are working showers, plumbing devices, interdimensional telephones, and slang that never existed till the 1990s. One can take this one step further by adding guns and cyborgs into the game, though that relies on the player more than anything else.
* AnachronismStew: Arcanus Cella is a backwater dimension filled with various mythical creatures that seems suspended in medieval stasis... except there are working showers, plumbing devices, interdimensional telephones, and slang that never existed till the 1990s. One can take this one step further by adding guns and cyborgs into the game, though that relies on the player more than anything else.
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* CoOpMultiplayer: One of ''Sengoku''[='=]s new major features is a multiplayer feature. In the co-op mode, you can join your friends with ad-hoc multiplayer ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter''-style and tackle dungeons as a group.
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* LuckBasedMission: Widens in Cladun x2 have about a 1 in 1000 chance of dropping from a single enemy in the game, Hiyokkis. In order to max out your characters' stats, you are going to need at least four of them. You get two freebies, no more; and if you find one in a dungeon, you have to survive long enough to get out. Good luck.
** The Lucky Seven Magic Circle also qualifies. You have to finish a Rangeon with the level on the final floor being exactly level 777, and you have no control over exactly what level any particular floor will be at, meaning that you may have to go through hundreds of runs before you can obtain it. And it isn't even that great anyways, once you get powerful enough to take on a level 777 dungeon.
** The Lucky Seven Magic Circle also qualifies. You have to finish a Rangeon with the level on the final floor being exactly level 777, and you have no control over exactly what level any particular floor will be at, meaning that you may have to go through hundreds of runs before you can obtain it. And it isn't even that great anyways, once you get powerful enough to take on a level 777 dungeon.
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* LuckBasedMission: Widens in Cladun x2 have about a 1 in 1000 chance of dropping from a single enemy in Getting the game, Hiyokkis. In order to max out your characters' stats, you are going to need at least four of them. You get two freebies, no more; and if you find one in a dungeon, you have to survive long enough to get out. Good luck.
** TheLucky Seven Magic Circle also qualifies.in ''x2''. You have to finish a Rangeon with the level on the final floor being exactly level 777, and you have no control over exactly what level any particular floor will be at, meaning that you may have to go through hundreds of runs before you can obtain it. And it isn't even that great anyways, once you get powerful enough to take on a level 777 dungeon.
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* MetalSlime: Hiyokkis are birdlike creatures that are generally non-combatant and will run if attacked. Killing them nets you an enormous amount of gold, a guranteed item drop, and tons of experience, but they have enormous amounts of health and run away extremely fast. This is saved from VideoGameCrueltyPotential by the fact that according to the flavor text they're all insufferable jerks and taunt you about the items as they're running from you.
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* MetalSlime: Hiyokkis are birdlike creatures that are generally non-combatant and will run if attacked. Killing them nets you an enormous amount of gold, a guranteed guaranteed item drop, and tons of experience, but they have enormous amounts of health and run away extremely fast. This is saved from VideoGameCrueltyPotential by the fact that according to the flavor text they're all insufferable jerks and taunt you about the items as they're running from you.
* MissionPackSequel: Outside of some major new features like multiplayer, ''Sengoku'' is essentially a {{Wutai}}-fied ''x2'' with some new classes and new dungeons.
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* RandomDrop: Widens in Cladun x2. 1/1000 chance of dropping from only a single enemy in the game (which happens to be a {{MetalSlime}}), that you need to carry out of the dungeon alive to be able to use, and that you need at least two of to be able to perfect a character? Yes, they're that bad.
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* RandomDrop: Widens in Cladun x2.RandomlyGeneratedLevels: Ran-geons, Tri-geons, and Neo-geons use this as their main gimmick.
* RareRandomDrop: ''x2'' has the infamous Widen artifacts. 1/1000 chance of dropping from only a single enemy in the game (which happens to be a {{MetalSlime}}), that you need to carry out of the dungeon alive to be able to use, and that you need at least two of to be able to perfect a character? Yes, they're that bad.
* RareRandomDrop: ''x2'' has the infamous Widen artifacts. 1/1000 chance of dropping from only a single enemy in the game (which happens to be a {{MetalSlime}}), that you need to carry out of the dungeon alive to be able to use, and that you need at least two of to be able to perfect a character? Yes, they're that bad.
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* SlippySlideyIceWorld: The inevitable result of any ice-themed level in either game, and there are a ''lot.''
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* SlippySlideyIceWorld: The inevitable result of any ice-themed level in either game, and there are a ''lot.'''' Anything that can inflict an Ice status on you can also give you ice physics for a time unless you're set on fire.
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* {{Wutai}}: ''Sengoku'' is set during, well, the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Sengoku period]] of Japan, which means the entire setting is a feudal Japan-themed version of Arcanus Cella.
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* OldSaveBonus: In a fashion; if you happened to download ''x2'' to your Vita or sent the save data forward from your PSP, any existing MML and Character Edit data can also be used in ''Sengoku''.
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A sequel, ''Cladun X2'', was released late August 2011 in the U.S., taking the editing UpToEleven with editable weapons, armor, animations, and even background music. The sequel also introduced new characters and new classes, such as a long range archer class. Now on [[http://www.nisamerica.com/index.php?nav=n&article=pbomb/PrinnyBomb_Vol257.html Steam]].
A third entry, titled ''ClaDun Sengoku'', is set to be released on May 27, 2016 in Japan. The game is set during the Warring States period in Arcanus Cella. There are more new jobs and weapon types plus competitive and cooperative multiplayer via ad-hoc play.
A third entry, titled ''ClaDun Sengoku'', is set to be released on May 27, 2016 in Japan. The game is set during the Warring States period in Arcanus Cella. There are more new jobs and weapon types plus competitive and cooperative multiplayer via ad-hoc play.
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A sequel, ''Cladun ''[=ClaDun=] X2'', was released late August 2011 in the U.S., taking the editing UpToEleven with editable weapons, armor, animations, and even background music. The sequel also introduced new characters and new classes, such as a long range archer class. Now on [[http://www.nisamerica.com/index.php?nav=n&article=pbomb/PrinnyBomb_Vol257.html Steam]].
A third entry, titled''ClaDun ''[=ClaDun=] Sengoku'', is set to be released on May 27, 2016 in Japan. The game is set during the Warring States period in Arcanus Cella. There are more new jobs and weapon types plus competitive and cooperative multiplayer via ad-hoc play.
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A sequel, Cladun X2, ''Cladun X2'', was released late August 2011 in the U.S., taking the editing UpToEleven with editable weapons, armor, animations, and even background music. The sequel also introduced new characters and new classes, such as a long range archer class. Now on [[http://www.nisamerica.com/index.php?nav=n&article=pbomb/PrinnyBomb_Vol257.html Steam]].
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A third entry, titled ''ClaDun Sengoku'', is set to be released on May 27, 2016 in Japan. The game is set during the Warring States period in Arcanus Cella. There are more new jobs and weapon types plus competitive and cooperative multiplayer via ad-hoc play.
A third entry, titled ''ClaDun Sengoku'', is set to be released on May 27, 2016 in Japan. The game is set during the Warring States period in Arcanus Cella. There are more new jobs and weapon types plus competitive and cooperative multiplayer via ad-hoc play.
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* CrowningMusicofAwesome: The entire soundtrack is amazing in both games but we'll only put 4 of the best.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Clb-hM23is&hd=1 Knight of a Foreign Country]] and The Explosion from 1.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdIlOxVvk9o&hd=1 Black Metallic Dragon]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Fk_S873i8 Relinquished Despair]] in X2.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Clb-hM23is&hd=1 Knight of a Foreign Country]] and The Explosion from 1.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdIlOxVvk9o&hd=1 Black Metallic Dragon]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Fk_S873i8 Relinquished Despair]] in X2.
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Such is the tale behind ''[=ClaDun=][[note]]portmanteau of "classic dungeon"[[/note]]: This is an RPG!'', a downloadable dungeon-crawling ActionRPG released for the {{PSP}} in 2010 by [[Creator/{{Nippon Ichi}} Nippon Ichi]]. The goal of the game is to fight your way through the dungeons, avoiding traps and defeating enemies in search of the exit. You control a single character, but through the use of the game's "Magic Circle" system, other characters can join you to protect you from harm, while also giving you a boost in strength.
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Such is the tale behind ''[=ClaDun=][[note]]portmanteau of "classic dungeon"[[/note]]: This is an RPG!'', a downloadable dungeon-crawling ActionRPG released for the {{PSP}} in 2010 by [[Creator/{{Nippon Ichi}} Nippon Ichi]].Creator/NipponIchi. The goal of the game is to fight your way through the dungeons, avoiding traps and defeating enemies in search of the exit. You control a single character, but through the use of the game's "Magic Circle" system, other characters can join you to protect you from harm, while also giving you a boost in strength.
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Such is the tale behind ''[=ClaDun=][[note]]portmanteau of "classic dungeon"[[/note]]: This is an RPG!'', a downloadable dungeon-crawling ActionRPG released for the {{PSP}} in 2010 by NipponIchi Software. The goal of the game is to fight your way through the dungeons, avoiding traps and defeating enemies in search of the exit. You control a single character, but through the use of the game's "Magic Circle" system, other characters can join you to protect you from harm, while also giving you a boost in strength.
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Such is the tale behind ''[=ClaDun=][[note]]portmanteau of "classic dungeon"[[/note]]: This is an RPG!'', a downloadable dungeon-crawling ActionRPG released for the {{PSP}} in 2010 by NipponIchi Software.[[Creator/{{Nippon Ichi}} Nippon Ichi]]. The goal of the game is to fight your way through the dungeons, avoiding traps and defeating enemies in search of the exit. You control a single character, but through the use of the game's "Magic Circle" system, other characters can join you to protect you from harm, while also giving you a boost in strength.
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* TheCameo: It's a NipponIchi Nippon Ichi game where anyone can be made a "main character", so of course [[spoiler: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhILaDauHRQ Asagi]]]] shows up.
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* LevelGrinding: This is a NipponIchi game. Want to do the postgame? Prepare to do a ''lot'' of this.
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* LevelGrinding: This is a NipponIchi Nippon Ichi game. Want to do the postgame? Prepare to do a ''lot'' of this.
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* CrowningMusicofAwesome: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Clb-hM23is&hd=1 Knight of a Foreign Country]]
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* CrowningMusicofAwesome: [[http://www.The entire soundtrack is amazing in both games but we'll only put 4 of the best.
**[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Clb-hM23is&hd=1 Knight of a ForeignCountry]]Country]] and The Explosion from 1.
**[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdIlOxVvk9o&hd=1 Black Metallic Dragon]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Fk_S873i8 Relinquished Despair]] in X2.
**[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Clb-hM23is&hd=1 Knight of a Foreign
**[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdIlOxVvk9o&hd=1 Black Metallic Dragon]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Fk_S873i8 Relinquished Despair]] in X2.
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* AmplifierArtifact: The rare Widen artifact, which placed on any tile, doubles the effect ([[RequiredSecondaryPowers and unfortunately, the mana cost as well]]) of all artifacts further down the chain. In ''X2'', placing it on an ability tile amplifies the effect of the skill instead (such as the area of effect, number of projectiles, etc).
* GameBreakingBug: Cancelling the charge-up of the bow by tapping the block button won't stop the charging sound until the game is closed. For extra fun, you can repeat this until all you can hear is a loud estrident hum.
* ImprobableUseOfAWeapon: The jump attack makes a full damage attack with the blunt type, even with [[SetSwordstoStun swords]] or [[PistolWhipping bows]].
* NotTheIntendedUse: Awaken tiles only activate when the main character uses the Awakening ability, giving access to artifacts beyond it. However, since they don't require a connection to the sub, many players use the Awaken-locked tiles as Mana-Up farms instead.
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* SchmuckBait: "Don't be lured by the promise of treasure".
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Fame is awarded by speedrunning through levels. If that is not your style you can buy it in the Black Market instead. If you do so, the fame you have will be forever [[EasyModeMockery displayed in poo-brown letters]].
* SchmuckBait: "Don't be lured by the promise of treasure".
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Fame is awarded by speedrunning through levels. If that is not your style you can buy it in the Black Market instead. If you do so, the fame you have will be forever [[EasyModeMockery displayed in poo-brown letters]].
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* AwesomeYetPractical: While a lot of skills in both games cost far too much to be able to use on a regular basis, some rare artifacts can reduce the casting level of the spell to a fraction of what it should normally be, making that previously hugely expensive ultimate skill lose a quarter of its power but cost barely anything, making it infinitely more usable. This doesn't apply to spells, however, which take into account casting level for strength and are weakened to the point of uselessness if this is attempted.
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* BreatherLevel: Heaven areas in Cladun x2's Trigeon. While technically possible to stay there indefinitely, you're more likely to be there for only two or three floors in a row before getting sent down to [[{{Mordor}} Chaos]], or worse, Transitory.
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* BloodKnight: [[spoiler: Death Glutton, post-character development. He lost his love for destruction and death, but his love for battle was truly his, making him virtually a living example of a {{Disgaea}} ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' demon and continuing the tradition of demons being [[NobleDemon Noble Demons.]]]]
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Such is the tale behind ''[=ClaDun=][[hottip:*:portmanteau of "classic dungeon"]]: This is an RPG!'', a downloadable dungeon-crawling ActionRPG released for the {{PSP}} in 2010 by NipponIchi Software. The goal of the game is to fight your way through the dungeons, avoiding traps and defeating enemies in search of the exit. You control a single character, but through the use of the game's "Magic Circle" system, other characters can join you to protect you from harm, while also giving you a boost in strength.
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Such is the tale behind ''[=ClaDun=][[hottip:*:portmanteau ''[=ClaDun=][[note]]portmanteau of "classic dungeon"]]: dungeon"[[/note]]: This is an RPG!'', a downloadable dungeon-crawling ActionRPG released for the {{PSP}} in 2010 by NipponIchi Software. The goal of the game is to fight your way through the dungeons, avoiding traps and defeating enemies in search of the exit. You control a single character, but through the use of the game's "Magic Circle" system, other characters can join you to protect you from harm, while also giving you a boost in strength.
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* EldritchAbomination: Immortals in Cladun x2, who look like an odd combination of [[DungeonsAndDragons Beholders]] and massive germ cells. They're also [[MeaningfulName unkillable.]]
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* EldritchAbomination: Immortals in Cladun x2, who look like an odd combination of [[DungeonsAndDragons [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Beholders]] and massive germ cells. They're also [[MeaningfulName unkillable.]]
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* ExcusePlot: Most of the "story" segments don't have much to do with the dungeon-crawling gameplay.
** The second game has significantly less of a story than the first one.
** The second game has significantly less of a story than the first one.
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* DeclarationOfProtection: Souma's motivation for staying with Pudding, despite his misgivings for them venturing into Arcanus Cella in the first place.
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The same teams would go on to release a SpiritualSuccessor in the PlayStationNetwork-exclusive ''VideoGame/{{Legasista}}'' in 2012.
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A sequel, Cladun X2, was released late August in the U.S., taking the editing UpToEleven with editable weapons, armor, animations, and even background music. The sequel also introduced new characters and new classes, such as a long range archer class. Now on [[http://www.nisamerica.com/index.php?nav=n&article=pbomb/PrinnyBomb_Vol257.html Steam]].
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A sequel, Cladun X2, was released late August 2011 in the U.S., taking the editing UpToEleven with editable weapons, armor, animations, and even background music. The sequel also introduced new characters and new classes, such as a long range archer class. Now on [[http://www.nisamerica.com/index.php?nav=n&article=pbomb/PrinnyBomb_Vol257.html Steam]].
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* BackFromTheDead: Don't like that a character in the story died? [[CanonShadow Remake them]] as a [[PlayerMooks Player Mook]]!
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Arcanus Cella is a world of mystery, existing in [[AnotherDimension a universe parallel to our own]]. Is rumored to be a land full of great treasures, powerful monsters, and wishes granted beyond one's wildest dreams.
Two young would-be heroes, Pudding and her childhood friend Souma, stumble upon this mystical place when exploring a mansion one night. Landing in an idyllic village with none to disturb them except for the sorceress Despina, they desperately search to find a way out of Arcanus Cella and back to their homeworld. Could it be through the unassuming tree in the southeast corner? Or past the creepy-looking door on the north side of town? And why are all of these other strangers gathering in this place all of a sudden?
Such is the tale behind ''[=ClaDun=][[hottip:*:portmanteau of "classic dungeon"]]: This is an RPG!'', a downloadable dungeon-crawling ActionRPG released for the {{PSP}} in 2010 by NipponIchi Software. The goal of the game is to fight your way through the dungeons, avoiding traps and defeating enemies in search of the exit. You control a single character, but through the use of the game's "Magic Circle" system, other characters can join you to protect you from harm, while also giving you a boost in strength.
A sequel, Cladun X2, was released late August in the U.S., taking the editing UpToEleven with editable weapons, armor, animations, and even background music. The sequel also introduced new characters and new classes, such as a long range archer class.
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! These are Tropes!
* AbnormalAmmo: It's easily possible in the second game to modify the arrows that bows fire into virtually anything you could think of.
* ActionGirl: Pudding, Sunday
* AdvancingBossOfDoom: Immortals in Cladun x2, though they aren't bosses and can't be killed except through some obscure methods, making fights against them boil down to 'who can run the fastest?'
* AffablyEvil: Even after his [[TheMole reveal]], [[spoiler: Parchmin]] never loses that weird accent and carefree attitude.
* TheAlcatraz: Cladun x2's version of Arcanus Cella is more or less a high-security prison ''in the form of a pocket dimension.''
* AnachronismStew: Arcanus Cella is a backwater dimension filled with various mythical creatures that seems suspended in medieval stasis... except there are working showers, plumbing devices, interdimensional telephones, and slang that never existed till the 1990s. One can take this one step further by adding guns and cyborgs into the game, though that relies on the player more than anything else.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Sorcery in Cladun x2 is insanely, insanely powerful magic: but, on the minus side, [[SuperpowerMeltdown it has a high chance of backfiring]] and it almost always requires you to cast the spell up to four times before it actually does anything - and those 'dummy' shots have a chance of backfiring too. In addition, high-level Sorcery spells have an insanely high SP cost on top of this.
** In general it's much easier to use weapons instead of spells to attack, since they tend to be much less SP-intensive, and an insanely powerful nuke spell isn't going to do much if you can't cast it.
* AwesomeYetPractical: While a lot of skills in both games cost far too much to be able to use on a regular basis, some rare artifacts can reduce the casting level of the spell to a fraction of what it should normally be, making that previously hugely expensive ultimate skill lose a quarter of its power but cost barely anything, making it infinitely more usable. This doesn't apply to spells, however, which take into account casting level for strength and are weakened to the point of uselessness if this is attempted.
* BackFromTheDead: Don't like that a character in the story died? [[CanonShadow Remake them]] as a [[PlayerMooks Player Mook]]!
* BadassCape: Parchmin's... rather impressive-looking cape. This is also an option to use with PlayerMooks in Cladun x2.
* BalefulPolymorph: [[spoiler: Widder in Cladun x2, by being on the wrong side of a FreakyFridayFlip.]]
* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler: Parchmin in Cladun x2, the guy with the red-and-black cape who goads you into killing monsters. Despite his impressive EvilPlan, however, he is not ObfuscatingStupidity.]]
* BigBoosHaunt: The graveyard levels and to a lesser extent the Madness Pantheon in Cladun x2.
* BloodKnight: [[spoiler: Death Glutton, post-character development. He lost his love for destruction and death, but his love for battle was truly his, making him virtually a living example of a {{Disgaea}} demon and continuing the tradition of demons being [[NobleDemon Noble Demons.]]]]
* BodySurf: [[spoiler: Parchmin spends the majority of Cladun x2 in Widder's actual body, posing as the Administrator of Arcanus Cella.]]
* BoobyTrap: Every single dungeon in the game, period. If you manage to find even one floor with absolutely no traps that isn't a boss area, you are an incredibly lonely soul.
* BonusBoss: In Cladun x2 you can face different versions of the final boss with varying strength after you've beaten him, ranging from level 1000 to level 9999.
** The BigBad from Cladun also returns, only suddenly having surged to level 999. The game notes that they've done a "lot of preparation."
* {{Cap}}: The level cap is 99 for each character. Stats are capped at 999, though you can break the cap in Cladun x2 by finding various titles that allow Attack and Defense to exceed that amount.
* BleakLevel: The Madness Pantheon in Cladun x2.
* BonusDungeon: Rangeons, Trigeons, and Neogeons - subverted in that you can usually begin to foray into them very early on, it just gets easier later and you can go much, much deeper than you could at first.
* BonusLevel: The Bonus Area, a special Rangeon area that only shows up on floor 77 in Cladun x2.
* BraggingRightsReward: The ultimate Magic Circle, God Excess, in Cladun x2. On one hand, it's on a general scale better than almost every other Magic Circle in the entire game, bar none. On the other, you have to defeat a whole Rangeon and end the dungeon level at level 9999 to get it, and that's by far one of the hardest challenges in the game anyways, making the reward more symbolic than anything.
* BrilliantButLazy: Mouton.
** Double-subverted when he [[spoiler: joins the party]]: he calls himself out on much of his information being completely wrong, but later on a significant chunk of his information (and the info that mattered) is vindicated and proven to be correct.
* BreatherLevel: Heaven areas in Cladun x2's Trigeon. While technically possible to stay there indefinitely, you're more likely to be there for only two or three floors in a row before getting sent down to [[{{Mordor}} Chaos]], or worse, Transitory.
* BrutalBonusLevel: Time Attack and the later areas of the Neogeons and Trigeons in general in Cladun x2.
* TheCameo: It's a NipponIchi game where anyone can be made a "main character", so of course [[spoiler: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhILaDauHRQ Asagi]]]] shows up.
** The game is built to allow this, as well, given the incredible versatility of the editing system, meaning that you can probably put anyone vaguely human into the game if you try hard enough.
* CanonShadow: The very nature of the character system leads to this.
* ChestMonster: Mimics in Cladun x2. Bonus points for them being even more populous than ''actual'' treasure chests in Transitory.
* ClingyMacGuffin: The mask found by Pudding that just won't go away, no matter how many times Despina and others try to get rid of it. Later on, [[TheImp it starts talking...]]
* CameBackWrong: When Despina uses magic to raise Coco from the dead, he ends turning into a zombie. This ends up being merely a cosmetic change that has no effect on his personality or his gameplay stats.
* ClassicVideoGameScrewYous:
** Enemies that can move through walls (Immortals)
** Complete absence of MercyInvincibility
** CharacterSelectForcing, especially on the graveyard levels, with a Saint
** Flying backwards after getting hit
** Rarely, when entering a lower-level floor an Immortal will spawn directly on top of the player
** InvisibleMonsters (ghosts)
** SpikesOfDoom ''everywhere''
* CosmicPlaything: Coco, by his own admission, seems to have the worst luck in the world.
* CrowningMusicofAwesome: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Clb-hM23is&hd=1 Knight of a Foreign Country]]
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Sorcery in Cladun x2. Justified in that it's AwesomeButImpractical and can be ''very'' harmful to the wielder themselves.
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Usually. Unless you're carrying any valuable items.
* DeathWorld: Doom Gates, and ''how.'' They're completely infested with high-level mobs that are only encountered in the regular storyline as bosses. There is no standard level in the dungeons, so mobs can range from anywhere between level 1 and level 9999. The area is filled with incredibly nasty traps that can easily deal thousands of HP in damage if you're unlucky enough to get hit by one. Immortals fly around. [[DegradedBoss Degraded versions of the final boss]] run around everywhere. Even better, Doom Gates are considered traps and thus you cannot even see one unless you're standing directly in front of it.
* DemotedToDragon: Played with. [[spoiler: Parchmin first pretends to be opposing the BigBad, then he pretends to ''be'' the actual BigBad, but then it's revealed that the real BigBad is still out there somewhere and he was just performing ThePlan to awaken him.]]
* DevourTheDragon: The ultimate fate of [[spoiler: Parchmin in Cladun x2]]. Luckily, due to how the game is designed you can just turn him into a [[PlayerMooks Player Mook]] afterwards if you really liked him and want him to be around again.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: The result of killing Immortals in Cladun x2. The game also rewards you with the specific Immortal's bestiary entry, which is always ended with [[{{Lampshading}} the quote "Are they really immortal?"]]
* DoubleEntendre: The bestiary entries in both games are absolutely ''packed'' with them.
* DungeonCrawling
* EldritchAbomination: Immortals in Cladun x2, who look like an odd combination of [[DungeonsAndDragons Beholders]] and massive germ cells. They're also [[MeaningfulName unkillable.]]
* EldritchLocation: Transitory in Cladun x2 is infested with [[InvincibleMinorMinion Immortals]] and is crawling with various Eyefamily mobs. [[DeathWorld Doom Gates are even worse - their walls are made of eyes.]]
* EliteMooks: Mooks colored yellow, green, white, blue, or red all have their strengths and weaknesses, but black-colored mooks have higher stats in every category and often have better types of attacks than their lesser counterparts.
* EmotionEater: Death Glutton. [[MeaningfulName It's in the name.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Hilariously (and tragically) spoofed in Cladun x2. [[spoiler: After Parchmin's EvilPlan is carried out flawlessly, Death Glutton proceeds to take offense to it and... instantly kills him on the spot because he didn't like his conduct]], an act so evil it causes the main characters to defend the previously AffablyEvil villain.
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler: Parchmin.]]
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Spoofed in Cladun x2: the reason why [[spoiler: Death Glutton]] lost is because he couldn't understand the power of friendship or why life was important. [[GracefulLoser He's a good sport about it, though.]]
* EyeScream: The monsters with one huge eye that constitutes most of their body are weak to Piercing damage. You do the math.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Immortals most ''certainly'' should not have eyes in the areas that they do.
* FakeDifficulty (and once again, TropesAreNotBad):
** SomeDexterityRequired
** CheckPointStarvation in the Rangeons
** RandomlyDrops, especially Widens
** Some minor cases of HitboxDissonance, especially with skeletons
** UnexpectedGameplayChange from a tried-and-true RPG to a {{Roguelike}} in the Rangeons
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: An inherent weakness in the plot of the second game is that while your character is technically unique, you cannot influence their decisions. In spite of this, the "mistakes" they do make are eventually vindicated and turn out for the best.
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Sunday, Sherbet, Coco and Asagi]] in their bad endings.
** [[spoiler: Parchmin implies that this is the case with the "prison" he's set up in Cladun x2 and the people fated to die there, but it's subverted when it turns out that he's misunderstood humans and it tuns out to be nearly utopian for them.]]
* FauxActionGirl: Pekora and Lamb in Cladun x2.
* FiveManBand: The player and the four characters who eventually join you in Cladun x2.
** TheHero: The player
** TheLancer: [[spoiler: Widder]]
** TheBigGuy: Lamb
** TheSmartGuy: Mouton
** TheChick: Pekora
** TheSixthRanger: [[spoiler: Parchmin]]
* FluffyCloudHeaven: Averted with Heaven in Cladun x2, which looks more like an endless string of opulent halls and shimmering architecture than anything else.
* FreakyFridayFlip: [[spoiler: Parchmin and Widder]] in Cladun x2. A rare villainous example that isn't PlayedForLaughs.
* FunnyAfro: Bob the stylist.
* GagDub: The games usually avert this, but a quick look at the bestiary in Cladun x2 confirms that there is ''no way'' all of it could have been translated exactly.
* GangplankGalleon: The aptly-named Pirate Ship from Cladun x2.
* GenkiGirl: Pudding
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In Cladun X2: "The bed's really messy. Used tissues are laying around everywhere."
* GracefulLoser: Surprisingly enough, [[spoiler: Death Glutton]] in Cladun x2. Once you defeat him the first time, he promptly asks you to leave him alone so that he can end up reflecting on why exactly it was that he lost. The second time you beat him and after your main character explains the concept of Magic Circles to him, he begins to laugh uncontrollably and says that it's no wonder he lost, if he didn't even know the process that you were able to grow stronger.
* HailfirePeaks: ''Constantly'' in Perfect World and Purgatory in Cladun x2, specifically of the fire/ice variety. The Various Area near the end of the Neogeons and the boss floor of the Neogeon also draws upon this.
* HubLevel: Arcanus Cella proper.
* HumanShield: Anyone in the Magic Circle takes damage ahead of the main character. Once they are all defeated, the player will take damage directly.
* IWillProtectHer: Souma's motivation for staying with Pudding, despite his misgivings for them venturing into Arcanus Cella in the first place.
* IdiotHero: Battleblo
* IllGirl: Pudding has the incurable [[SoapOperaDisease "Die Laughing" disease]] that is guaranteed to kill her in about six months, but she has ''absolutely none'' of the personality traits or physical frailty usually associated with the trope. Instead, she's hyperactive and acts as though she has carte blanche to do whatever she wants, and her bucket list's biggest item right now is "explore dungeon, get treasure."
* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: Many of the later areas in the randomly generated dungeons could qualify. Imminent Area? Immortal Area? Curse Area? Fierce Area? Sorcery Area? ''Worst Area?'' '''Massacre Area?'''
* IncendiaryExponent: If you happen to jump into a fire, your main character will, of course, take damage, but your weapon will also now do fire damage!
** Ditto with ice damage, by jumping into a stream of frozen water. In fact, this can actually be weaponized against monsters that are usually immune to normal damage, like Ghosts.
* IneffectualLoner: Played with and zigzagged in Cladun x2. While the other named characters accuse your character of this due to him/her going off on his/her own to fight monsters, he/she is also supported by the members of the Magic Circle... which more or less means that they stay in the tavern while he/she goes off and fights.
* InfinityPlusOneElement: Mind has some elements of this: it's very rare to have on equipment or spells and generally ends up affecting nearly everything in the game either normally or deals greater damage (in fact, some monsters have Mind as their only weakness). All player characters have abysmal Mind resistance as well, apart from Ninjas and Saints. On the other hand, enemies who are more spiritual in nature (such as Ghosts) are often heavily resistant to it.
* [[InfinityPlusOneSword Infinity Plus One Equipment]]: They exist, but are incredibly hard to find and require you to be facing enemies in the mid-thousands of levels. [[LuckBasedMission Happy hunting!]]
* InsistentTerminology: Crosstine isn't a stray cat. He's a familiar and comes from a noble bloodline!
* InsufferableGenius: Mouton comes across as very arrogant. Pekora even makes a small aside to the player character that the only thing he doesn't know a lot about is humility.
* InvincibleMinorMook: Immortals in Cladun x2, though calling them minor is slightly underestimating them, as they deal extremely high amounts of damage.
* JiveTurkey: Parchmin, though he's a milder example than most and usually refrains from using incredibly outdated terms. Justified in that he's incredibly eccentric to begin with.
* JungleJapes: The Jungle Area in the earlier areas of the Neogeons.
* KaizoTrap: Doom Gates have a very bad tendency to pop up just before you reach an exit. Bonus points if it's in the middle of a tiny hallway, making it truly unavoidable. It's also the only gate which ''still'' forces you to enter if you jump over it.
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: Upon first appearing in Cladun x2, the main characters question whether Death Glutton is truly evil; then he murders Parchmin, his Dragon, who had worked throughout the entire game to bring him back to life again, because he was annoying.]]
* KilledOffForReal: Impossible to do in the games. Even if an NPC or PC is completely killed off, the editing function is sufficient enough for the player to remake them and give them their old name, even if they lose all of their progress.
* KillItWithFire: Actually a dialog option in the game. As previously suspected, at least one of the localizers is OneOfUs.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The prisoners of the Arcanus Cella in Cladun x2 have all had their memories wiped clean of the crimes they have done. [[spoiler: Or at least the criminals who came before Arcanus Cella was condemned - by the time Cladun x2 rolls around the only denizens present are Pekora, Lamb, Mouton, and the player character, who have not sinned and are being told this by Parchmin to fool them into losing hope.]]
* LevelGrinding: This is a NipponIchi game. Want to do the postgame? Prepare to do a ''lot'' of this.
* LordBritishPostulate: While Immortals are supposed to only be killable through the Punish title in Cladun x2, they can also be defeated by reflecting their own damage back at them.
* LuckBasedMission: Widens in Cladun x2 have about a 1 in 1000 chance of dropping from a single enemy in the game, Hiyokkis. In order to max out your characters' stats, you are going to need at least four of them. You get two freebies, no more; and if you find one in a dungeon, you have to survive long enough to get out. Good luck.
** The Lucky Seven Magic Circle also qualifies. You have to finish a Rangeon with the level on the final floor being exactly level 777, and you have no control over exactly what level any particular floor will be at, meaning that you may have to go through hundreds of runs before you can obtain it. And it isn't even that great anyways, once you get powerful enough to take on a level 777 dungeon.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: Bob is Despina's grandfather. Also, Crosstine is his familiar.]]
* MacrossMissileMassacre: The result of constantly spamming Arrow Rain in Cladun x2, [[RecycledInSpace except with arrows instead of ballistics.]]
* MarathonLevel: The randomly-generated 99-floor dungeons, though luckily you can (and probably will) exit out early if you find an exit.
* TheMaze: Labyrinth Gardens.
* MercyInvincibility: Averted on the player's side. [[NintendoHard What mercy?]]
* MetalSlime: Hiyokkis are birdlike creatures that are generally non-combatant and will run if attacked. Killing them nets you an enormous amount of gold, a guranteed item drop, and tons of experience, but they have enormous amounts of health and run away extremely fast. This is saved from VideoGameCrueltyPotential by the fact that according to the flavor text they're all insufferable jerks and taunt you about the items as they're running from you.
* MillionToOneChance: Apparently, the "Die Laughing" disease has a one-in-a-million chance of transferring from one person to another. Coco has the worst luck in the world. Guess what happens?
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Parchmin in Cladun x2]], though he is who he says he is. Sort of. It gets complicated.
* MoneySpider: Every single monster in the game except, for some odd reason, mushrooms. The bestiary entry in Cladun x2 lampshades this with the description of Poles (turrets), saying that monsters "must use them as piggy banks."
* {{Mordor}}: Chaos in Cladun x2.
* MultipleEndings: Each story character has a "bad ending" that can be viewed by going to the door in the tree. Also, once you've beaten the final boss once, you can see the "good ending" for each character (other than "secret character" [[spoiler:Asagi]]) by going back and beating it again using that character as your main. (You get the secret character's "good ending" by beating a BonusBoss.) Some of the endings can even be accessed as early as the first few minutes after leaving the first dungeon.
* MysteriousProtector: Sherbet, for Dotache the bartender [[spoiler: who is actually a ''princess'']].
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Does [[ObviouslyEvil Death Glutton]] sound like a demon you would want to have as a friend?
* NewGamePlus: The second game has this, but it's virtually useless apart from being able to revisit the tutorial [[spoiler: and the first true fight with Death Glutton,]] as well as respawning all of the old red treasure chests that were present in the dungeons.
* NobleDemon: [[spoiler: Death Glutton, when separated from his bloodthirsty side. It's even hinted slightly before that when he kills Parchmin for making a fool of himself.]]
* NoHeroDiscount: Even Coco the shopkeeper has to pay full price for his equipment. [[FridgeLogic Who's he buying it from?]]
* NumberTwoForBrains: [[spoiler: Parchmin in Cladun x2, while his {{plan}} was impressive, wasn't exactly a paragon of intelligence.]]
* OneTimeDungeon: Strangely enough, in Cladun x2 the tutorial dungeon is the only one you can't revisit. [[spoiler: You can actually revisit Death Glutton's boss level, Descent of Might Symbol, but nobody will be there and an exit is placed at the beginning of the level instead.]]
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: [[spoiler: Parchmin the shape-shifting, fashion-conscious, slang-hurling ''human administrator.'' He's also TheMole.]]
* OverratedAndUnderleveled: Every character that joins the Magic Circle starts out at level 1, even those that join very late in the game.
** Make sure to create all of the characters you can near the beginning of the game, lest you spend an even longer time later on catching up.
* PalmtreePanic: The very first two areas of the Neogeon, the Initiation Area and the Tropical Area.
* ThePlan: [[spoiler: A particularly awe-inspiring example by Parchmin in Cladun x2. After hearing that Arcanus Cella is going to be condemned to stop the resident EmotionEater Death Glutton from awakening and wreaking havoc on the outside world, he [[FreakyFridayFlip body-swaps with the administrator of Arcanus Cella]], Widder, to impersonate him, and then once again opens up channels and starts pulling innocent people in. Once there, he lies to them and says that their crimes have been erased from their memory via amnesia when in fact they have committed none. He then gives them the choice of either fighting in vain through the multiple dungeons in Arcanus Cella, giving Death Glutton power from the deaths of monsters that are occurring, or by giving up, living a life of opulence and pointlessness, and letting Death Glutton feast on resignation and despair. The only flaw in his plan was failing to comprehend how much Death Glutton cared for his subordinates: that is, not much.]]
* PlanetHeck: Chaos, filled with ninjas, demons, demon lords, liches, golems, insectoid spellcasters, and dragons, to name a few. Surprisingly, it's relatively devoid of lava, preferring to instead coat the scenery with an impenetrable coat of gray, barren rock.
* PlayerMooks: You can create them once Dotache appears in town.
** In the second game, you don't have access to ''any'' named characters until very late in the game, at which point PlayerMooks will make up the entirety of your party.
* PocketDimension: The Arcanus Cella of Cladun x2, which functions as a maximum-security prison for notorious criminals. Also the Chaos, Heaven, and Transitory areas in Cladun x2's Trigeon. The Doom World may also qualify.
* PoisonMushroom: While not a broad example, trying to tell Hiyokki and Immortal Traps apart from each other in a grassy area or when sight is otherwise obscured. While both traps look identical on the edges, one trap summons a MetalSlime that you can kill for a load of gold and a guranteed item drop, while the other summons an InvincibleMinorMinion that chases you around for a good twenty seconds before it disappears.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Join the Magic Circle and become strong!
** Spoofed: Magic Circles are more or less magical enchantments that give a physical form to the power of friendship that powers up the "main character." It's even [[{{Lampshade}} Lampshaded]] in the second game, where [[spoiler: Death Glutton points out that since he didn't even know such a process existed, it's no wonder he lost to you.]]
* TooKinkyToTorture: Lamb is explicitly stated ingame to be a masochist, in compensation for the crimes she has [[spoiler: not actually]] committed.
* TrapDoor: Doom Gates in Cladun x2 have the dubious honor of being the only type of gate to the next floor that cannot be seen unless standing nearly on top of it. [[ShmuckBait Suffice to say that going into one usually does not end well.]]
* ProphecyTwist: Pudding had a dream that if she went to Arcanus Cella, she wouldn't die from her incurable illness. She assumes that it means if she keeps exploring the dungeons, she'll find a cure. That's not quite what happens...
* RandomDrop: Widens in Cladun x2. 1/1000 chance of dropping from only a single enemy in the game (which happens to be a {{MetalSlime}}), that you need to carry out of the dungeon alive to be able to use, and that you need at least two of to be able to perfect a character? Yes, they're that bad.
** That being said, you can buy them from the BlackMarket... it's just that they're hideously expensive.
* RandomlyGeneratedLevels
* RebelliousPrincess: [[spoiler: Dotache, the middle-aged, ''male'' bartender, is a princess who deliberately cursed herself with a permanent disguise so she could run away.]]
** Lamb in Cladun x2 was a princess who started and led a rebellion against her home country, throwing the kingdom into disaster. [[spoiler: It's a lie told by Parchmin (and justified via LaserGuidedAmnesia) to convince her that she had sinned.]]
* {{Retraux}}: The graphics are blocky, but still surprisingly detailed and nuanced. The Retraux also applies to the music; you can listen to the honestly beautiful soundtrack, or you can listen to an 8-bit chiptune version of it.
* TheRival: Sunday and Battleblo. Sunday wound up in Arcanus Cella so that she could find the "ultimate sword", while Battleblo followed her there in search of the "ultimate shield".
* {{Roguelike}}: While an RPG, if dungeon-delving, the Cladun also borrows many elements of roguelike games with all of the randomly-generated environments.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Souma and Pudding
* SealedEvilInACan: The reason why Arcanus Cella [[spoiler: was condemned in Cladun x2 and everyone was evacuated out of the area: Death Glutton was posing a massive threat both to Arcanus Cella and the world as a whole. Unfortunately, due to Parchmin's interference, it didn't work.]]
* SexFaceTurn: Mouton tries to instill one of these in the player in the second game so that he can stop raiding dungeons [[spoiler: and stop giving Death Glutton more power to awaken with]] by telling Pekora and Lamb to try and seduce him, saying that it can't possibly fail. He promptly throws a fit when the player walks away due to anticipating the motive behind the action.
* ShapeshifterModeLock: Invoked by [[spoiler: Parchmin]] as part of his {{plan}} : while he's a natural shapeshifter, inducing a FreakyFridayFlip in one of his weakest forms would leave the victim stuck in a particularly weak body that poses little threat.
* ShiftingSandLand: The desert levels, naturally.
* ShmuckBait: Some players swear by going into Doom Gates when possible due to the prospect of overleveled loot and overleveled equipment. The success of this... varies.
* ShopKeeper: Coco
* ShoutOut: The bestiary entries in both games are ''full'' of these.
* ShrinkingViolet: In spite of her ActionGirl appearance, Sunday actually suffers from crippling shyness; she can't talk to men without using her sword as a SecurityBlanket.
* SlippySlideyIceWorld: The inevitable result of any ice-themed level in either game, and there are a ''lot.''
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Mouton is notably one of the only characters in either game to wear a very noticeable pair of NerdGlasses. He's also a (self-proclaimed) genius.
* SmashMook: Golems in both games. Their attacks are smashing the ground, smashing the ground twice in a row, and (if you get too far away) to drop rocks on you.
* SophisticatedAsHell: Parchmin. Say what you want about his intelligence or tact, he's certainly fashion-conscious with that cape and his dialogue is dripping with "youth slang."
* SpeedRun: Finishing levels under the allotted time will give you access to higher-quality items in Coco's shop.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: Sherbert is repeatedly described as Dotache's "stalker" until the characters learn why she's been acting like one.
* ThemeNaming: Lots of desserts, in case you couldn't tell.
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: [[spoiler: Widder in Cladun x2, while actually being human, has a ton of dog-related mannerisms due to being trapped in a FreakyFridayFlip in a dog's body for a manner of years.]]
* ThrowTheDogABone: [[spoiler: Asagi finally gets her shot at being TheHero...]]
** YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler:...But of course, Asagi starts glitching out once she joins the party, proving TheProtagonist is simply not in the cards for her. ''Ever.'']]
* UpgradeArtifact: There are a whole bunch of artifacts which increase different parameters for your main character. Special mention goes to Widens in Cladun x2, which can be attacked to an Ability slot to drastically power up a character's attacks. Enemies can get them too, which can lead to effects as mild as their projectiles going faster, or as drastic as the resident [[{{Mooks}} Peons]] suddenly gaining the ability to fire massive explosive lasers out of their attacks.
* VainSorceress: Despina. She's also a lazy one, as she eventually gives up on trying to dispose of the mask.
* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: Perfect World in Cladun x2 is a meta-example, with Purgatory being a straighter one due to the fact that the plot is oddly divided to before the final boss and after. It doesn't help that the game has a very self-referential definition of a final boss, and that altogether there are a good three bosses who can be considered the 'final' one.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: A particularly scary example in Cladun x2 with [[spoiler: Parchmin]], naturally a dragon, and who on top of this can also BodySurf. Due to this, it gets incredibly difficult in the middle of the game to figure out what the heck is going on, and who's who.
* WakeUpCallBoss: The boss of the Monster House. Simply hacking and slashing away won't beat him, as his shield guards against all attacks from the front, significantly reducing damage.
* TheWallsHaveEyes: The Doom Area. Justified in that it's apparently in some way connected to Immortals, considering that murals of Immortals occasionally appear on the floors inside and Immortals have an annoying tendency to spawn everywhere in there.
* WeHaveReserves: Played with in Cladun x2. Killing the evil minions in Arcanus Cella [[spoiler: actually powers up their boss, Death Glutton.]]
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Two young would-be heroes, Pudding and her childhood friend Souma, stumble upon this mystical place when exploring a mansion one night. Landing in an idyllic village with none to disturb them except for the sorceress Despina, they desperately search to find a way out of Arcanus Cella and back to their homeworld. Could it be through the unassuming tree in the southeast corner? Or past the creepy-looking door on the north side of town? And why are all of these other strangers gathering in this place all of a sudden?
Such is the tale behind ''[=ClaDun=][[hottip:*:portmanteau of "classic dungeon"]]: This is an RPG!'', a downloadable dungeon-crawling ActionRPG released for the {{PSP}} in 2010 by NipponIchi Software. The goal of the game is to fight your way through the dungeons, avoiding traps and defeating enemies in search of the exit. You control a single character, but through the use of the game's "Magic Circle" system, other characters can join you to protect you from harm, while also giving you a boost in strength.
A sequel, Cladun X2, was released late August in the U.S., taking the editing UpToEleven with editable weapons, armor, animations, and even background music. The sequel also introduced new characters and new classes, such as a long range archer class.
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! These are Tropes!
* AbnormalAmmo: It's easily possible in the second game to modify the arrows that bows fire into virtually anything you could think of.
* ActionGirl: Pudding, Sunday
* AdvancingBossOfDoom: Immortals in Cladun x2, though they aren't bosses and can't be killed except through some obscure methods, making fights against them boil down to 'who can run the fastest?'
* AffablyEvil: Even after his [[TheMole reveal]], [[spoiler: Parchmin]] never loses that weird accent and carefree attitude.
* TheAlcatraz: Cladun x2's version of Arcanus Cella is more or less a high-security prison ''in the form of a pocket dimension.''
* AnachronismStew: Arcanus Cella is a backwater dimension filled with various mythical creatures that seems suspended in medieval stasis... except there are working showers, plumbing devices, interdimensional telephones, and slang that never existed till the 1990s. One can take this one step further by adding guns and cyborgs into the game, though that relies on the player more than anything else.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Sorcery in Cladun x2 is insanely, insanely powerful magic: but, on the minus side, [[SuperpowerMeltdown it has a high chance of backfiring]] and it almost always requires you to cast the spell up to four times before it actually does anything - and those 'dummy' shots have a chance of backfiring too. In addition, high-level Sorcery spells have an insanely high SP cost on top of this.
** In general it's much easier to use weapons instead of spells to attack, since they tend to be much less SP-intensive, and an insanely powerful nuke spell isn't going to do much if you can't cast it.
* AwesomeYetPractical: While a lot of skills in both games cost far too much to be able to use on a regular basis, some rare artifacts can reduce the casting level of the spell to a fraction of what it should normally be, making that previously hugely expensive ultimate skill lose a quarter of its power but cost barely anything, making it infinitely more usable. This doesn't apply to spells, however, which take into account casting level for strength and are weakened to the point of uselessness if this is attempted.
* BackFromTheDead: Don't like that a character in the story died? [[CanonShadow Remake them]] as a [[PlayerMooks Player Mook]]!
* BadassCape: Parchmin's... rather impressive-looking cape. This is also an option to use with PlayerMooks in Cladun x2.
* BalefulPolymorph: [[spoiler: Widder in Cladun x2, by being on the wrong side of a FreakyFridayFlip.]]
* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler: Parchmin in Cladun x2, the guy with the red-and-black cape who goads you into killing monsters. Despite his impressive EvilPlan, however, he is not ObfuscatingStupidity.]]
* BigBoosHaunt: The graveyard levels and to a lesser extent the Madness Pantheon in Cladun x2.
* BloodKnight: [[spoiler: Death Glutton, post-character development. He lost his love for destruction and death, but his love for battle was truly his, making him virtually a living example of a {{Disgaea}} demon and continuing the tradition of demons being [[NobleDemon Noble Demons.]]]]
* BodySurf: [[spoiler: Parchmin spends the majority of Cladun x2 in Widder's actual body, posing as the Administrator of Arcanus Cella.]]
* BoobyTrap: Every single dungeon in the game, period. If you manage to find even one floor with absolutely no traps that isn't a boss area, you are an incredibly lonely soul.
* BonusBoss: In Cladun x2 you can face different versions of the final boss with varying strength after you've beaten him, ranging from level 1000 to level 9999.
** The BigBad from Cladun also returns, only suddenly having surged to level 999. The game notes that they've done a "lot of preparation."
* {{Cap}}: The level cap is 99 for each character. Stats are capped at 999, though you can break the cap in Cladun x2 by finding various titles that allow Attack and Defense to exceed that amount.
* BleakLevel: The Madness Pantheon in Cladun x2.
* BonusDungeon: Rangeons, Trigeons, and Neogeons - subverted in that you can usually begin to foray into them very early on, it just gets easier later and you can go much, much deeper than you could at first.
* BonusLevel: The Bonus Area, a special Rangeon area that only shows up on floor 77 in Cladun x2.
* BraggingRightsReward: The ultimate Magic Circle, God Excess, in Cladun x2. On one hand, it's on a general scale better than almost every other Magic Circle in the entire game, bar none. On the other, you have to defeat a whole Rangeon and end the dungeon level at level 9999 to get it, and that's by far one of the hardest challenges in the game anyways, making the reward more symbolic than anything.
* BrilliantButLazy: Mouton.
** Double-subverted when he [[spoiler: joins the party]]: he calls himself out on much of his information being completely wrong, but later on a significant chunk of his information (and the info that mattered) is vindicated and proven to be correct.
* BreatherLevel: Heaven areas in Cladun x2's Trigeon. While technically possible to stay there indefinitely, you're more likely to be there for only two or three floors in a row before getting sent down to [[{{Mordor}} Chaos]], or worse, Transitory.
* BrutalBonusLevel: Time Attack and the later areas of the Neogeons and Trigeons in general in Cladun x2.
* TheCameo: It's a NipponIchi game where anyone can be made a "main character", so of course [[spoiler: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhILaDauHRQ Asagi]]]] shows up.
** The game is built to allow this, as well, given the incredible versatility of the editing system, meaning that you can probably put anyone vaguely human into the game if you try hard enough.
* CanonShadow: The very nature of the character system leads to this.
* ChestMonster: Mimics in Cladun x2. Bonus points for them being even more populous than ''actual'' treasure chests in Transitory.
* ClingyMacGuffin: The mask found by Pudding that just won't go away, no matter how many times Despina and others try to get rid of it. Later on, [[TheImp it starts talking...]]
* CameBackWrong: When Despina uses magic to raise Coco from the dead, he ends turning into a zombie. This ends up being merely a cosmetic change that has no effect on his personality or his gameplay stats.
* ClassicVideoGameScrewYous:
** Enemies that can move through walls (Immortals)
** Complete absence of MercyInvincibility
** CharacterSelectForcing, especially on the graveyard levels, with a Saint
** Flying backwards after getting hit
** Rarely, when entering a lower-level floor an Immortal will spawn directly on top of the player
** InvisibleMonsters (ghosts)
** SpikesOfDoom ''everywhere''
* CosmicPlaything: Coco, by his own admission, seems to have the worst luck in the world.
* CrowningMusicofAwesome: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Clb-hM23is&hd=1 Knight of a Foreign Country]]
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Sorcery in Cladun x2. Justified in that it's AwesomeButImpractical and can be ''very'' harmful to the wielder themselves.
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Usually. Unless you're carrying any valuable items.
* DeathWorld: Doom Gates, and ''how.'' They're completely infested with high-level mobs that are only encountered in the regular storyline as bosses. There is no standard level in the dungeons, so mobs can range from anywhere between level 1 and level 9999. The area is filled with incredibly nasty traps that can easily deal thousands of HP in damage if you're unlucky enough to get hit by one. Immortals fly around. [[DegradedBoss Degraded versions of the final boss]] run around everywhere. Even better, Doom Gates are considered traps and thus you cannot even see one unless you're standing directly in front of it.
* DemotedToDragon: Played with. [[spoiler: Parchmin first pretends to be opposing the BigBad, then he pretends to ''be'' the actual BigBad, but then it's revealed that the real BigBad is still out there somewhere and he was just performing ThePlan to awaken him.]]
* DevourTheDragon: The ultimate fate of [[spoiler: Parchmin in Cladun x2]]. Luckily, due to how the game is designed you can just turn him into a [[PlayerMooks Player Mook]] afterwards if you really liked him and want him to be around again.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: The result of killing Immortals in Cladun x2. The game also rewards you with the specific Immortal's bestiary entry, which is always ended with [[{{Lampshading}} the quote "Are they really immortal?"]]
* DoubleEntendre: The bestiary entries in both games are absolutely ''packed'' with them.
* DungeonCrawling
* EldritchAbomination: Immortals in Cladun x2, who look like an odd combination of [[DungeonsAndDragons Beholders]] and massive germ cells. They're also [[MeaningfulName unkillable.]]
* EldritchLocation: Transitory in Cladun x2 is infested with [[InvincibleMinorMinion Immortals]] and is crawling with various Eyefamily mobs. [[DeathWorld Doom Gates are even worse - their walls are made of eyes.]]
* EliteMooks: Mooks colored yellow, green, white, blue, or red all have their strengths and weaknesses, but black-colored mooks have higher stats in every category and often have better types of attacks than their lesser counterparts.
* EmotionEater: Death Glutton. [[MeaningfulName It's in the name.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Hilariously (and tragically) spoofed in Cladun x2. [[spoiler: After Parchmin's EvilPlan is carried out flawlessly, Death Glutton proceeds to take offense to it and... instantly kills him on the spot because he didn't like his conduct]], an act so evil it causes the main characters to defend the previously AffablyEvil villain.
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler: Parchmin.]]
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Spoofed in Cladun x2: the reason why [[spoiler: Death Glutton]] lost is because he couldn't understand the power of friendship or why life was important. [[GracefulLoser He's a good sport about it, though.]]
* EyeScream: The monsters with one huge eye that constitutes most of their body are weak to Piercing damage. You do the math.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Immortals most ''certainly'' should not have eyes in the areas that they do.
* FakeDifficulty (and once again, TropesAreNotBad):
** SomeDexterityRequired
** CheckPointStarvation in the Rangeons
** RandomlyDrops, especially Widens
** Some minor cases of HitboxDissonance, especially with skeletons
** UnexpectedGameplayChange from a tried-and-true RPG to a {{Roguelike}} in the Rangeons
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: An inherent weakness in the plot of the second game is that while your character is technically unique, you cannot influence their decisions. In spite of this, the "mistakes" they do make are eventually vindicated and turn out for the best.
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Sunday, Sherbet, Coco and Asagi]] in their bad endings.
** [[spoiler: Parchmin implies that this is the case with the "prison" he's set up in Cladun x2 and the people fated to die there, but it's subverted when it turns out that he's misunderstood humans and it tuns out to be nearly utopian for them.]]
* FauxActionGirl: Pekora and Lamb in Cladun x2.
* FiveManBand: The player and the four characters who eventually join you in Cladun x2.
** TheHero: The player
** TheLancer: [[spoiler: Widder]]
** TheBigGuy: Lamb
** TheSmartGuy: Mouton
** TheChick: Pekora
** TheSixthRanger: [[spoiler: Parchmin]]
* FluffyCloudHeaven: Averted with Heaven in Cladun x2, which looks more like an endless string of opulent halls and shimmering architecture than anything else.
* FreakyFridayFlip: [[spoiler: Parchmin and Widder]] in Cladun x2. A rare villainous example that isn't PlayedForLaughs.
* FunnyAfro: Bob the stylist.
* GagDub: The games usually avert this, but a quick look at the bestiary in Cladun x2 confirms that there is ''no way'' all of it could have been translated exactly.
* GangplankGalleon: The aptly-named Pirate Ship from Cladun x2.
* GenkiGirl: Pudding
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In Cladun X2: "The bed's really messy. Used tissues are laying around everywhere."
* GracefulLoser: Surprisingly enough, [[spoiler: Death Glutton]] in Cladun x2. Once you defeat him the first time, he promptly asks you to leave him alone so that he can end up reflecting on why exactly it was that he lost. The second time you beat him and after your main character explains the concept of Magic Circles to him, he begins to laugh uncontrollably and says that it's no wonder he lost, if he didn't even know the process that you were able to grow stronger.
* HailfirePeaks: ''Constantly'' in Perfect World and Purgatory in Cladun x2, specifically of the fire/ice variety. The Various Area near the end of the Neogeons and the boss floor of the Neogeon also draws upon this.
* HubLevel: Arcanus Cella proper.
* HumanShield: Anyone in the Magic Circle takes damage ahead of the main character. Once they are all defeated, the player will take damage directly.
* IWillProtectHer: Souma's motivation for staying with Pudding, despite his misgivings for them venturing into Arcanus Cella in the first place.
* IdiotHero: Battleblo
* IllGirl: Pudding has the incurable [[SoapOperaDisease "Die Laughing" disease]] that is guaranteed to kill her in about six months, but she has ''absolutely none'' of the personality traits or physical frailty usually associated with the trope. Instead, she's hyperactive and acts as though she has carte blanche to do whatever she wants, and her bucket list's biggest item right now is "explore dungeon, get treasure."
* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: Many of the later areas in the randomly generated dungeons could qualify. Imminent Area? Immortal Area? Curse Area? Fierce Area? Sorcery Area? ''Worst Area?'' '''Massacre Area?'''
* IncendiaryExponent: If you happen to jump into a fire, your main character will, of course, take damage, but your weapon will also now do fire damage!
** Ditto with ice damage, by jumping into a stream of frozen water. In fact, this can actually be weaponized against monsters that are usually immune to normal damage, like Ghosts.
* IneffectualLoner: Played with and zigzagged in Cladun x2. While the other named characters accuse your character of this due to him/her going off on his/her own to fight monsters, he/she is also supported by the members of the Magic Circle... which more or less means that they stay in the tavern while he/she goes off and fights.
* InfinityPlusOneElement: Mind has some elements of this: it's very rare to have on equipment or spells and generally ends up affecting nearly everything in the game either normally or deals greater damage (in fact, some monsters have Mind as their only weakness). All player characters have abysmal Mind resistance as well, apart from Ninjas and Saints. On the other hand, enemies who are more spiritual in nature (such as Ghosts) are often heavily resistant to it.
* [[InfinityPlusOneSword Infinity Plus One Equipment]]: They exist, but are incredibly hard to find and require you to be facing enemies in the mid-thousands of levels. [[LuckBasedMission Happy hunting!]]
* InsistentTerminology: Crosstine isn't a stray cat. He's a familiar and comes from a noble bloodline!
* InsufferableGenius: Mouton comes across as very arrogant. Pekora even makes a small aside to the player character that the only thing he doesn't know a lot about is humility.
* InvincibleMinorMook: Immortals in Cladun x2, though calling them minor is slightly underestimating them, as they deal extremely high amounts of damage.
* JiveTurkey: Parchmin, though he's a milder example than most and usually refrains from using incredibly outdated terms. Justified in that he's incredibly eccentric to begin with.
* JungleJapes: The Jungle Area in the earlier areas of the Neogeons.
* KaizoTrap: Doom Gates have a very bad tendency to pop up just before you reach an exit. Bonus points if it's in the middle of a tiny hallway, making it truly unavoidable. It's also the only gate which ''still'' forces you to enter if you jump over it.
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: Upon first appearing in Cladun x2, the main characters question whether Death Glutton is truly evil; then he murders Parchmin, his Dragon, who had worked throughout the entire game to bring him back to life again, because he was annoying.]]
* KilledOffForReal: Impossible to do in the games. Even if an NPC or PC is completely killed off, the editing function is sufficient enough for the player to remake them and give them their old name, even if they lose all of their progress.
* KillItWithFire: Actually a dialog option in the game. As previously suspected, at least one of the localizers is OneOfUs.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The prisoners of the Arcanus Cella in Cladun x2 have all had their memories wiped clean of the crimes they have done. [[spoiler: Or at least the criminals who came before Arcanus Cella was condemned - by the time Cladun x2 rolls around the only denizens present are Pekora, Lamb, Mouton, and the player character, who have not sinned and are being told this by Parchmin to fool them into losing hope.]]
* LevelGrinding: This is a NipponIchi game. Want to do the postgame? Prepare to do a ''lot'' of this.
* LordBritishPostulate: While Immortals are supposed to only be killable through the Punish title in Cladun x2, they can also be defeated by reflecting their own damage back at them.
* LuckBasedMission: Widens in Cladun x2 have about a 1 in 1000 chance of dropping from a single enemy in the game, Hiyokkis. In order to max out your characters' stats, you are going to need at least four of them. You get two freebies, no more; and if you find one in a dungeon, you have to survive long enough to get out. Good luck.
** The Lucky Seven Magic Circle also qualifies. You have to finish a Rangeon with the level on the final floor being exactly level 777, and you have no control over exactly what level any particular floor will be at, meaning that you may have to go through hundreds of runs before you can obtain it. And it isn't even that great anyways, once you get powerful enough to take on a level 777 dungeon.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: Bob is Despina's grandfather. Also, Crosstine is his familiar.]]
* MacrossMissileMassacre: The result of constantly spamming Arrow Rain in Cladun x2, [[RecycledInSpace except with arrows instead of ballistics.]]
* MarathonLevel: The randomly-generated 99-floor dungeons, though luckily you can (and probably will) exit out early if you find an exit.
* TheMaze: Labyrinth Gardens.
* MercyInvincibility: Averted on the player's side. [[NintendoHard What mercy?]]
* MetalSlime: Hiyokkis are birdlike creatures that are generally non-combatant and will run if attacked. Killing them nets you an enormous amount of gold, a guranteed item drop, and tons of experience, but they have enormous amounts of health and run away extremely fast. This is saved from VideoGameCrueltyPotential by the fact that according to the flavor text they're all insufferable jerks and taunt you about the items as they're running from you.
* MillionToOneChance: Apparently, the "Die Laughing" disease has a one-in-a-million chance of transferring from one person to another. Coco has the worst luck in the world. Guess what happens?
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Parchmin in Cladun x2]], though he is who he says he is. Sort of. It gets complicated.
* MoneySpider: Every single monster in the game except, for some odd reason, mushrooms. The bestiary entry in Cladun x2 lampshades this with the description of Poles (turrets), saying that monsters "must use them as piggy banks."
* {{Mordor}}: Chaos in Cladun x2.
* MultipleEndings: Each story character has a "bad ending" that can be viewed by going to the door in the tree. Also, once you've beaten the final boss once, you can see the "good ending" for each character (other than "secret character" [[spoiler:Asagi]]) by going back and beating it again using that character as your main. (You get the secret character's "good ending" by beating a BonusBoss.) Some of the endings can even be accessed as early as the first few minutes after leaving the first dungeon.
* MysteriousProtector: Sherbet, for Dotache the bartender [[spoiler: who is actually a ''princess'']].
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Does [[ObviouslyEvil Death Glutton]] sound like a demon you would want to have as a friend?
* NewGamePlus: The second game has this, but it's virtually useless apart from being able to revisit the tutorial [[spoiler: and the first true fight with Death Glutton,]] as well as respawning all of the old red treasure chests that were present in the dungeons.
* NobleDemon: [[spoiler: Death Glutton, when separated from his bloodthirsty side. It's even hinted slightly before that when he kills Parchmin for making a fool of himself.]]
* NoHeroDiscount: Even Coco the shopkeeper has to pay full price for his equipment. [[FridgeLogic Who's he buying it from?]]
* NumberTwoForBrains: [[spoiler: Parchmin in Cladun x2, while his {{plan}} was impressive, wasn't exactly a paragon of intelligence.]]
* OneTimeDungeon: Strangely enough, in Cladun x2 the tutorial dungeon is the only one you can't revisit. [[spoiler: You can actually revisit Death Glutton's boss level, Descent of Might Symbol, but nobody will be there and an exit is placed at the beginning of the level instead.]]
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: [[spoiler: Parchmin the shape-shifting, fashion-conscious, slang-hurling ''human administrator.'' He's also TheMole.]]
* OverratedAndUnderleveled: Every character that joins the Magic Circle starts out at level 1, even those that join very late in the game.
** Make sure to create all of the characters you can near the beginning of the game, lest you spend an even longer time later on catching up.
* PalmtreePanic: The very first two areas of the Neogeon, the Initiation Area and the Tropical Area.
* ThePlan: [[spoiler: A particularly awe-inspiring example by Parchmin in Cladun x2. After hearing that Arcanus Cella is going to be condemned to stop the resident EmotionEater Death Glutton from awakening and wreaking havoc on the outside world, he [[FreakyFridayFlip body-swaps with the administrator of Arcanus Cella]], Widder, to impersonate him, and then once again opens up channels and starts pulling innocent people in. Once there, he lies to them and says that their crimes have been erased from their memory via amnesia when in fact they have committed none. He then gives them the choice of either fighting in vain through the multiple dungeons in Arcanus Cella, giving Death Glutton power from the deaths of monsters that are occurring, or by giving up, living a life of opulence and pointlessness, and letting Death Glutton feast on resignation and despair. The only flaw in his plan was failing to comprehend how much Death Glutton cared for his subordinates: that is, not much.]]
* PlanetHeck: Chaos, filled with ninjas, demons, demon lords, liches, golems, insectoid spellcasters, and dragons, to name a few. Surprisingly, it's relatively devoid of lava, preferring to instead coat the scenery with an impenetrable coat of gray, barren rock.
* PlayerMooks: You can create them once Dotache appears in town.
** In the second game, you don't have access to ''any'' named characters until very late in the game, at which point PlayerMooks will make up the entirety of your party.
* PocketDimension: The Arcanus Cella of Cladun x2, which functions as a maximum-security prison for notorious criminals. Also the Chaos, Heaven, and Transitory areas in Cladun x2's Trigeon. The Doom World may also qualify.
* PoisonMushroom: While not a broad example, trying to tell Hiyokki and Immortal Traps apart from each other in a grassy area or when sight is otherwise obscured. While both traps look identical on the edges, one trap summons a MetalSlime that you can kill for a load of gold and a guranteed item drop, while the other summons an InvincibleMinorMinion that chases you around for a good twenty seconds before it disappears.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Join the Magic Circle and become strong!
** Spoofed: Magic Circles are more or less magical enchantments that give a physical form to the power of friendship that powers up the "main character." It's even [[{{Lampshade}} Lampshaded]] in the second game, where [[spoiler: Death Glutton points out that since he didn't even know such a process existed, it's no wonder he lost to you.]]
* TooKinkyToTorture: Lamb is explicitly stated ingame to be a masochist, in compensation for the crimes she has [[spoiler: not actually]] committed.
* TrapDoor: Doom Gates in Cladun x2 have the dubious honor of being the only type of gate to the next floor that cannot be seen unless standing nearly on top of it. [[ShmuckBait Suffice to say that going into one usually does not end well.]]
* ProphecyTwist: Pudding had a dream that if she went to Arcanus Cella, she wouldn't die from her incurable illness. She assumes that it means if she keeps exploring the dungeons, she'll find a cure. That's not quite what happens...
* RandomDrop: Widens in Cladun x2. 1/1000 chance of dropping from only a single enemy in the game (which happens to be a {{MetalSlime}}), that you need to carry out of the dungeon alive to be able to use, and that you need at least two of to be able to perfect a character? Yes, they're that bad.
** That being said, you can buy them from the BlackMarket... it's just that they're hideously expensive.
* RandomlyGeneratedLevels
* RebelliousPrincess: [[spoiler: Dotache, the middle-aged, ''male'' bartender, is a princess who deliberately cursed herself with a permanent disguise so she could run away.]]
** Lamb in Cladun x2 was a princess who started and led a rebellion against her home country, throwing the kingdom into disaster. [[spoiler: It's a lie told by Parchmin (and justified via LaserGuidedAmnesia) to convince her that she had sinned.]]
* {{Retraux}}: The graphics are blocky, but still surprisingly detailed and nuanced. The Retraux also applies to the music; you can listen to the honestly beautiful soundtrack, or you can listen to an 8-bit chiptune version of it.
* TheRival: Sunday and Battleblo. Sunday wound up in Arcanus Cella so that she could find the "ultimate sword", while Battleblo followed her there in search of the "ultimate shield".
* {{Roguelike}}: While an RPG, if dungeon-delving, the Cladun also borrows many elements of roguelike games with all of the randomly-generated environments.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Souma and Pudding
* SealedEvilInACan: The reason why Arcanus Cella [[spoiler: was condemned in Cladun x2 and everyone was evacuated out of the area: Death Glutton was posing a massive threat both to Arcanus Cella and the world as a whole. Unfortunately, due to Parchmin's interference, it didn't work.]]
* SexFaceTurn: Mouton tries to instill one of these in the player in the second game so that he can stop raiding dungeons [[spoiler: and stop giving Death Glutton more power to awaken with]] by telling Pekora and Lamb to try and seduce him, saying that it can't possibly fail. He promptly throws a fit when the player walks away due to anticipating the motive behind the action.
* ShapeshifterModeLock: Invoked by [[spoiler: Parchmin]] as part of his {{plan}} : while he's a natural shapeshifter, inducing a FreakyFridayFlip in one of his weakest forms would leave the victim stuck in a particularly weak body that poses little threat.
* ShiftingSandLand: The desert levels, naturally.
* ShmuckBait: Some players swear by going into Doom Gates when possible due to the prospect of overleveled loot and overleveled equipment. The success of this... varies.
* ShopKeeper: Coco
* ShoutOut: The bestiary entries in both games are ''full'' of these.
* ShrinkingViolet: In spite of her ActionGirl appearance, Sunday actually suffers from crippling shyness; she can't talk to men without using her sword as a SecurityBlanket.
* SlippySlideyIceWorld: The inevitable result of any ice-themed level in either game, and there are a ''lot.''
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Mouton is notably one of the only characters in either game to wear a very noticeable pair of NerdGlasses. He's also a (self-proclaimed) genius.
* SmashMook: Golems in both games. Their attacks are smashing the ground, smashing the ground twice in a row, and (if you get too far away) to drop rocks on you.
* SophisticatedAsHell: Parchmin. Say what you want about his intelligence or tact, he's certainly fashion-conscious with that cape and his dialogue is dripping with "youth slang."
* SpeedRun: Finishing levels under the allotted time will give you access to higher-quality items in Coco's shop.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: Sherbert is repeatedly described as Dotache's "stalker" until the characters learn why she's been acting like one.
* ThemeNaming: Lots of desserts, in case you couldn't tell.
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: [[spoiler: Widder in Cladun x2, while actually being human, has a ton of dog-related mannerisms due to being trapped in a FreakyFridayFlip in a dog's body for a manner of years.]]
* ThrowTheDogABone: [[spoiler: Asagi finally gets her shot at being TheHero...]]
** YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler:...But of course, Asagi starts glitching out once she joins the party, proving TheProtagonist is simply not in the cards for her. ''Ever.'']]
* UpgradeArtifact: There are a whole bunch of artifacts which increase different parameters for your main character. Special mention goes to Widens in Cladun x2, which can be attacked to an Ability slot to drastically power up a character's attacks. Enemies can get them too, which can lead to effects as mild as their projectiles going faster, or as drastic as the resident [[{{Mooks}} Peons]] suddenly gaining the ability to fire massive explosive lasers out of their attacks.
* VainSorceress: Despina. She's also a lazy one, as she eventually gives up on trying to dispose of the mask.
* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: Perfect World in Cladun x2 is a meta-example, with Purgatory being a straighter one due to the fact that the plot is oddly divided to before the final boss and after. It doesn't help that the game has a very self-referential definition of a final boss, and that altogether there are a good three bosses who can be considered the 'final' one.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: A particularly scary example in Cladun x2 with [[spoiler: Parchmin]], naturally a dragon, and who on top of this can also BodySurf. Due to this, it gets incredibly difficult in the middle of the game to figure out what the heck is going on, and who's who.
* WakeUpCallBoss: The boss of the Monster House. Simply hacking and slashing away won't beat him, as his shield guards against all attacks from the front, significantly reducing damage.
* TheWallsHaveEyes: The Doom Area. Justified in that it's apparently in some way connected to Immortals, considering that murals of Immortals occasionally appear on the floors inside and Immortals have an annoying tendency to spawn everywhere in there.
* WeHaveReserves: Played with in Cladun x2. Killing the evil minions in Arcanus Cella [[spoiler: actually powers up their boss, Death Glutton.]]
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